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Summary

From the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially those by Shelley's own parents, husband, and friends. A lively introduction is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peakers"s Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein. Fans of Science Fiction and Gothic Literature.

Author Biography

Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats. With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005). Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

ix

About Longman Cultural Editions

xi

About This Edition

xiii

Introduction

xvii

Table of Dates

xiii

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

1

(179)

Volume I

5

(59)

Volume II

64

(51)

Volume III

115

(65)

from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)

180

(29)

M.W.S.'s Introduction

186

(5)

Some Additions to Robert Walton's first letters

191

(3)

Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankenstein's Narrative

194

(17)

Victor's childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth

Victor's enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science

Victor's departure for University of Ingolstadt

Clerval's straits

Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman

Victor 's health suffers

Elizabeth's report on Ernest Frankenstein Clerval's lament for William

Victor's anguish over Justine and William

Victor's continuing agony

[Creature's story of framing Justine]

Victor's plans for a second creature

Clerval's imperial ambitions

Victor's apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion

Victor's secret

Contexts

209

(2)

Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley

211

(62)

AESTHETIC ADVENTURES

211

(7)

Edmund Burke on "the Sublime and the Beautiful"

212

(3)

Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke's genderings

215

(1)

William Gilpin on "the Picturesque"

216

(2)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)

218

(10)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, from The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria: Jemima's story

228

(17)

MARY GODWIN (SHELLEY), from her journal of 1815: the death of her first baby

245

(2)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, from Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude

247

(9)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History' of a Six Weeks' Tour: Alpine scenery